laborious
Example Sentences
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After a laborious setup of some 40 minutes, Blanc finally starts nosing around the scene.
For much of the 20th century, financial modeling meant working with a rudimentary, laborious set of tools: eight-column ledger paper, mechanical adding machines or hand-held calculators.
Chef Mo, who owns a tiny hole-in-the-wall eatery in Jeonju, forages her own mushrooms on the mountainside, grows produce in her backyard and makes most of her laborious, time-intensive dishes from scratch.
From Salon
Yamamoto admitted that a complete game was nowhere in his mind after such a laborious opening frame.
On this night, though, Snell had nothing left — having failed to record a single 1-2-3 inning in what became his shortest start of the playoffs, five-plus innings that required 100 laborious pitches.
From Los Angeles Times
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